Good evening. Welcome to the Just Sleep podcast. I'm Tasia, your host.

Every week, I will read you an old story to help you relax of the stressful day behind you and drift off to sleep.

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Right now, we're reading a study in Scarlet, the first full-length novel of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle,

and the one which chronicles Holmes and Watson's meeting and their first case.

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Now onto the story.

Tonight, I will be reading The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter.

So lie down, close your eyes, and let me read you a story.

During my long and intimate acquaintance with Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I had never heard him refer to his relations, and hardly ever to his own early life.

This reticence upon his part had increased the somewhat inhuman effect which he produced upon me,

until sometimes I found myself regarding him as an isolated phenomenon,

a brain without a heart, as deficient in human sympathy as he was preeminent in intelligence.

His aversion to women and his disinclination to form new friendships were both typical of his

unemotional character, but not more so

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